Swiss Shooting Trophy Goblet, 1880
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A Continental silver shooting trophy goblet, Swiss, 1880, the Bernische Kantonal Schiessen, 'Bernese Cantonal shooting, Biel, 1880' trophy with knopped standard and decorated in the Renaissance Revival manner with gadrooned, foliate borders and cabochon motifs, a descriptive medallion in relief to the bowl, stamped .800 to foot, 300gms
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- Gadrooning - A series of lobes usually as a border. In furniture gadrooning is found as carved decoration around the edges of table tops in the Chippendale and Jacobean style furniture. Gadrooning is also found as decoration on the rims of silver and ceramics.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Knop (silver) - A knop on a silver item is either a bulbous protrusion mid way along a stem, such as on a candlestick or at the end of a stem, such as on a spoon, or a knob or finial on top of a cover or lid, that acts as a handle. On a stemmed item such as a candlestick there may be a series of knops of different shapes.
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